Rare White Tigers Born In The Ukraine

A white tiger in a Ukraine zoo has given birth to four rare tiger cubs, one of them an albino. A white tiger in a Yalta zoo has given birth to four rare tiger cubs this week, one of them an albino, according to zoo workers. The newborns are in good health and are being taken care of by staff at the Skazka Zoo in southern Ukraine. The birth is an important event, especially because white tigers are so rare. There are only a very few white tigers in the world... so their birth in captivity is always a big event in the life of a zoo. One of the cubs is an albino. "Usually tigers are white with black stripes, but there are also albinos without black stripes. This is a joyful event in the life of the zoo, we were waiting for it impatiently and we're glad that the babies are healthy, strong, and today are being held by zoo caretakers," said the zoo's director Oleg Zubkov. Source: Bisarbeat: ...
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Ordinary People Prep For A Zombie Takeover In Discovery Channel's 'Zombie Apocalypse'

Are you ready for doomsday? Or a Zombie Apocalypse? Discovery Channel introduces a group of ordinary people prepping for a zombie takeover and examines the science behind this end-of-the-world scenario in the new one-hour special "Zombie Apocalypse," premiering Tuesday, December 18th at 10 p.m. ET/PT as part of Discovery Channel's "Apocalypse Tuesday" lineup. From The Walking Dead to bath salts causing Zombie-like attacks, Zombie culture is everywhere and there's a core group of seemingly ordinary people prepping in the event that the Zombie Apocalypse staggers out of fiction and becomes reality. As belief spreads throughout the science community, Ivy League professors and scientists speak out in this Discovery Channel special to describe the plausibility of this scenario. Some people imagine what it would be like to win the lottery, but Zombie Preppers spend their time planning for Zombie attacks. Meet the everyday individuals who can't stop thinking through all the scenarios for their own demise: -Patti Heffernan: A mother of two who's teaching her children to fight Zombies, she spends time fortifying her home and thinking through worst case scenarios. -Alfredo Carbajel: Founder of the Kansas Anti-Zombie militia, he has a secret location stockpiled with all the supplies necessary to keep him alive during...
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Underground nuclear tests are hard to detect. A new method can spot them 99% of the time

US Department of Energy via Wikimedia Mark Hoggard, Australian National UniversitySince the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted by eight countries: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea. Groups such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization are constantly on the lookout for new tests. However, for reasons of safety and secrecy, modern nuclear tests are carried out underground – which makes them difficult to detect. Often, the only indication they have occurred is from the seismic waves they generate. In a paper published in Geophysical Journal International, my colleagues and I have developed a way to distinguish between underground nuclear tests and natural earthquakes with around 99% accuracy. Fallout The invention of nuclear weapons sparked an international arms race, as the Soviet Union, the UK and France developed and tested increasingly larger and more sophisticated devices in an attempt to keep up with the US. Many early tests caused serious environmental and societal damage. For example, the US’s 1954 Castle Bravo test, conducted in secret at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, delivered large volumes of radioactive fallout to several nearby islands and their inhabitants. Between...
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